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The United States risks running out of cash to pay its obligations by mid-July unless Congress adopts a resolution to raise or suspend the maximum national debt ceiling, according to an analysis published by the Bipartisan Policy Center think...

The French government has launched its third national climate change adaptation plan, a long-awaited project that has already been considered insufficient by certain experts and environmental organizations. The document aims to prepare France for...

Argentina is facing devastating floods. At least 16 people have died and dozens are missing in the port city of Bahia Blanca, Argentina, after a violent storm caused massive flooding, authorities said. President Javier Milia declared three days...

The "Apocalypse Vault', the global seed bank located on the island of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, has received another 14,000 seed samples to protect the planet's agricultural biodiversity. The facility,...

The missing of some climate change targets is confirmed by several institutions. Global average temperatures have exceeded the internationally agreed 1.5 degrees Celsius target in the past two years, an EU monitor said, with the Earth recording...

Major disasters are wake-up calls from which people must draw the right conclusions. The fires in the US are a wake-up call related to the structure of large cities and climate change. The catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, exacerbated by the...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered a powerful message to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, highlighting the major dangers facing humanity. He compared the current situation to the myth of Pandora, warning that global actions and...

European entrepreneurs in agriculture, forestry and fisheries will benefit from a total of euro3 billion in financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB), according to a press release published yesterday on the financial and banking...

What was expected, according to forecasts, will be officially recorded. 2024 will be the warmest year on record, and extraordinarily high temperatures are expected to persist at least into the first months of 2025, European Union scientists said...

Artificial intelligence is also proving very efficient in the field of meteorology. Google has developed an Artificial Intelligence system capable of forecasting the weather for a period of 15 days and with unprecedented accuracy, thus saving...

Climate-driven migration is a major concern for governments around the world. The global climate crisis is no longer a distant future, but a present reality. Every year, millions of people are forced to flee their homes due to natural disasters...

Roxana Mînzatu, our country's proposal for the position of European Commissioner, successfully passed her hearing yesterday by the members of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Internal Affairs (LIBE), Labor Force and Social Affairs (EMPL),...

Weather events generated by climate change continue to cause major damage to the global economy, with a total cost of more than $2 trillion over the past decade, according to a report by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). An estimated...

Natural disasters are increasing at an alarming rate, much to people's concern. The catastrophic floods that killed at least 72 people in Spain were caused by a destructive weather system in which cold and warm air meet to produce heavy rain...

A recent World Bank report shows an alarming situation for the world's 26 poorest countries, which are home to 40% of the people most affected by poverty. These economies have reached the highest level of debt in the last 18 years and face...

În faţa ameninţărilor climatice din ce în ce mai frecvente şi devastatoare, o soluţie inovatoare şi simplă câştigă teren: transferul rapid de bani către populaţiile afectate prin intermediul telefonului mobil. În loc să aştepte ca un dezastru să...

In the face of increasingly frequent and devastating climate threats, an innovative and simple solution is gaining ground: the rapid transfer of money to affected populations via mobile phone. Instead of waiting for a disaster to strike, this...

The glaciers in Switzerland experienced an accelerated melting this year, exceeding the average of recent years, according to a report by the organization GLAMOS (Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland). This trend continues to draw the attention of...

The world is under the sign of floods. Trouble flows from Europe to Asia. Storm Boris brought chaos and suffering to Central and Eastern Europe, leaving behind huge casualties and property damage. This powerful storm affected several countries,...

The first quarter of the 21st century brought great transformations and challenges for humanity. Rapid technological progress, climate change, geopolitical tensions, and social and cultural revolutions have created a context in which collective...

Fires have ravaged vast territories across the globe this year. These fires, fueled by extreme weather conditions and climate change, have caused massive damage and triggered national and international emergency responses. This summer Canada is...

Our country has faced a new wave of heat waves in recent days. This is the first red heat code (the tenth this summer) ever issued in August in Romania, the director of the National Meteorological Administration, Elena Mateescu, said. Entire...

Greed, bad decisions, wrong experiments have caused immense damage to nature. Humans, guilty of climate warming, represent the same "danger" for our planet as "the meteorite that exterminated the dinosaurs", declared the UN...

The world is preparing for a summer with record temperatures. Signals are clear and coming from multiple areas. Finland recorded an unusually warm month, with temperatures exceeding 25 degrees Celsius, a record for this country, the Finnish...

Schimbările climatice nu produc chiar toate nenorocirile de pe planetă, mai există şi alte cauze. Un aisberg de mari dimensiuni s-a desprins din banchiza Brunt, în Antarctica, a anunţat British Antarctic Survey (BAS), un institut de cercetare din...

Climate change is not the cause of all the misfortunes on the planet, there are other causes as well. A large iceberg has broken off from the Brunt Iceberg, in Antarctica, announced the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), a research institute in...

Schimbările climatice aduc după ele şi un alai cu dezastrele naturale. Furtunile violente sunt tot mai prezente, existând zone ale globului care sunt tot mai afectate de acestea. Fenomenul El Nino şi schimbările climatice cauzate de activităţile...

Climate change also brings with it a procession of natural disasters. Violent storms are more and more present, there are areas of the globe that are more and more affected by them. The El Nino phenomenon and climate change caused by human...

Asia a fost în 2023 "regiunea lumii cea mai afectată de catastrofe" legate de condiţiile meteorologice, inundaţiile şi furtunile provocând pe parcursul anului trecut cele mai multe victime şi cele mai mari pierderi economice, relevă un...

Asia was in 2023 "the region of the world most affected by catastrophes" related to meteorological conditions, with floods and storms causing the most victims and the greatest economic losses during the past year, reveals a UN report....

April started with unbearable temperatures in certain regions of the world. According to a study, the unbearable heat wave that hit the Sahel region at the beginning of April is linked to "anthropogenic" climate change, scientists from...

Less than half of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) prohibit anonymous donations for political financing, according to the data published in the report Anti-corruption and integrity -...

The grievances of employees in the cultural sector are far from being resolved. The dialogue with the authorities does not have the expected effect. The representatives of the CulturMedia Union convey, in a manifesto, that on Museum Day, on May...

The second day of the European People's Party (EPP) Congress in Bucharest concluded with the confirmation of Ursula von der Leyen as the EPP candidate for the position of President of the European Commission, after two days of debates on...

Year after year, vast regions of the entire surface of the earth are devastated by fires. Despite safety measures, these disasters cannot be stopped. More than 2,000 people were ordered to evacuate last week from towns in the Australian state of...

Fenomenele meteo extreme sunt tot mai prezente pe toată suprafaţa globului. Există şi regiuni unde sunt depăşite aşteptările negative. Brazilia a înregistrat pentru prima dată în 2023 peste 1.000 de dezastre naturale, respectiv o medie de peste...

Extreme weather phenomena are increasingly present all over the globe. There are also regions where negative expectations are exceeded. Brazil recorded for the first time in 2023 more than 1,000 natural disasters, respectively an average of more...

CFR Călători does not take the blame for the thousands of minutes of delay recorded last year for all the trains in the equipment and claims that most of the delays have a different cause than the fault of the company, according to a press...

Meteorological records fell one after another throughout 2023, and Europe was no exception. Last year was the hottest in the history of meteorological recordings, with a "remarkable" advancement, probably the warmest in the last 100,000...

The force of nature, including its destructive power, is well known. Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, storms in the United States, and other natural disasters last year caused global losses of $250 billion, and less than half of these losses were...